significant : Idioms & Phrases

• noun any digit of a number that is known with certainty; any digit of a number beginning with the leftmost non-zero digit and ending with the rightmost non-zero digit (or a zero considered to be the exact value)
  significant figure; significant digit.
  
  • he calculated the answer to four significant figures

WordNet

• noun any digit of a number that is known with certainty; any digit of a number beginning with the leftmost non-zero digit and ending with the rightmost non-zero digit (or a zero considered to be the exact value)
  significant figure; significant digit.
  
  • he calculated the answer to four significant figures

WordNet

• noun any digit of a number that is known with certainty; any digit of a number beginning with the leftmost non-zero digit and ending with the rightmost non-zero digit (or a zero considered to be the exact value)
  significant figure; significant digit.
  
  • he calculated the answer to four significant figures

WordNet

• (Arith.), the figures which remain to any number, or decimal fraction, after the ciphers at the right or left are canceled. Thus, the significant figures of 25,000, or of .0025, are 25.

Webster 1913

• noun a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship
  spousal equivalent; spouse equivalent; domestic partner.
  

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